Tvmama

1 Comment Written by Atila on July 16, 2008 – 4:31 pm

A Labour MP has recently said that despite soaring living costs, borrowing costs, and below inflation pay rises consumers in the UK are wealthier than ever. In fact, Transport Minister, Tom Harris, has gone as far as to tell consumers in the UK to stop being ’so bloody miserable’ claiming that the nation is wealthier than ever despite the many financial problems like credit card debt that have hit the nation recently, and despite the increasing number of households finding it impossible to keep up with loan repayments.

A Treasury spokesman was clearly not impressed with the comments, stating: ‘Tom Harris’s breathtaking comments raise Labour’s arrogance and complacency to a whole new level. Like his boss, Gordon Brown, he clearly lives on a different planet from ordinary hard-working families - who are struggling with soaring living costs, stagnant earnings and falling house prices. The short answer to Mr Harris’s question asking why everyone is so miserable is, “Because we’ve got Gordon Brown as our Prime Minister”.’

However, Harris stated: ‘In our own country today, despite the recent credit squeeze, our citizens have never been so wealthy. High-def TVs fly off the shelves at Tesco quicker than they can be imported. Whatever the latest technological innovation, most people can treat themselves to it. Eating out - a rare treat when I was a child in the Seventies - is as commonplace as going shopping. And when we do go shopping, whether for groceries or for clothes, we spend money in quantities that would have made our parents gasp.’

He added: ‘There are more two-car homes in Britain today than there are homes without a car at all. ‘We live longer, eat healthier (if we choose), have better access to forms of entertainment never imagined a generation ago (satellite TV, DVD, computer games), the majority of us have fast access to the worldwide web, which we use to enable even more spending and for entertainment.’